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|| IUB Ph.D Student || Ethnomusicologist || Black Roots Music || Queer 🏳️‍🌈 || He/Him || ✌🏾🪕🎷
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Just got an 'officer election results' email from the president of an org whose board struggled to leave a few years back and got hives thinking that I had been voted in to do more unpaid labor. Phew
May 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Gay culture really has lost a lot of its generational knowledge.. our elders were doing the same if not more raunchy things back in the day than we give them credit for!
March 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
What's the opposite of imposter syndrome? Cause that's the thing that I need to cultivate in myself
February 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Shame on me for allowing others to make me think I'm not an expert in my own research area 😤
February 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I was not prepared for the PURE JOY that comes from hearing my hair beads click when I walk
February 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Trump: "The US will take over the Gaza Strip."
February 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Sometimes, European American cuisine is just a competition to see how much butter and flour you can put in a dish without it becoming bread..
February 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Finally submitted my first full length article-article for peer review. Let's hope they pick up what I'm laying down 🤞🏾
February 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... via @statnews.com
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Do any other Black scholars/musicians get interviewed by ⚪ journalists about your perspective on the issue that you are an expert in only to be told that you're wrong and should just be grateful for the opportunity to exist?
It's happened to me 3 times in the last 6 months. This is wild right?
January 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others
January 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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And just like that, my new award from the @StateDept to help Pakistan grapple with air pollution and climate change is no more, thanks to this new administration
January 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My favorite part of visiting the West coast often is that I get to cosplay as one of those people who wake up early..
January 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Again, I am using my favorite phrase I got used to saying last year: "that's beyond the scope of the project in question" regarding *certain critiques* of my work
January 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Finally joined this app and am glad to see that my community still exists (somewhat)
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM